05-08-2024, 06:45 PM
This forum post contains spoilers for NationStates Issues!
Issue Number 1507, "Busting to Go" is one of the weirdest issues in NationStates. To all appearances, it's a normal issue about filibusters, but it has one interestingly out of place option- The last option.
Quote:“Chaps, this IS the system working, don’t you see?” explains an elder statesman, who has woken from a short nap, and is still wearing his nightcap. “The mechanisms of democracy have tangled the powers-that-be into blissful inaction, and befuddled the populace beneath a barrage of bureaucratic bewitchery. Politics drags on, the entire process of government is kicked to the long grass, and the country prospers because old fools like us don’t try to run things. Just sit back, listen, relax. The decades will fly by, and before you know it you’ll be retiring to the quango, cushy corporate advisory role or tropical island of your choice.” A black cat walks past and for a moment you experience a weird sense of déjà vu.
If you choose this, nothing will happen. No stat effects whatsoever. And you might think that the issue has been resolved. Until... It reappears. NationStates has some hidden and half-hidden flags on what issue to give to any nation at a given time, and issue 1507 is unique in that it can tick a hidden flag to give you the same issue. Again and again. Guaranteed. I have answered this issue twice, and still have it as an issue (where I am now storing it like a particularly hazardous SCP).
I think this issue is particularly comedic, because if you just go along with it and choose the option to ignore the filibuster, this issue will recur over and over again and prevent you from getting other government business done. Just like the filibuster.
So thanks to the NS issues editors who gave us this, and the techies for making it work.